Funding, News and Announcements

Compute Canada’s annual Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC) opened up this past week, with a submission deadline of November 5, 2020.

The RAC is a peer-reviewed competition designed for research groups who require more compute, storage or cloud resources than are provided within regular Compute Canada account allocations. It is comprised of two competitions:

1. The Resources for Research Groups (RRG) for those requiring compute and storage; and
2. The Research Platforms & Portals (RPP) for those requiring cloud resources to create digital platforms, tools and applications customized for a specific community within a discipline, ex. Canadian literature of the 20th century.

Each year, ACENET supports a number of PIs who apply for these competitions. Over the past 3 years, 75 Atlantic Canadian researchers have received RAC allocations, some with in-kind valuations over $350,000.

There are two upcoming information sessions designed to provide researchers and administrators more details and answer questions:

October 6, 1:00-2:30pm ADT (English) REGISTER
October 7, 1:00-2:30pm ADT (French) REGISTER

For researchers who are either struggling to complete research because of limited computational or cloud resources within Compute Canada, or who may otherwise benefit from holding a RAC allocation, ACENET would be pleased to answer questions and/or provide support with their application.

Researchers at Dalhousie can contact their local research consultant below. Additional contacts include info@ace-net.ca or rac@computecanada.ca. 

Research Consultants:

ross.dickson@ace-net.ca
lydia.vermeyden@ace-net.ca  (ACENET research consultant for Humanities and Social Sciences)